Xenofeminism, Cyberfeminism and the death of gender

Xenofeminism (XF) is one of the more radical ideological experiments, a fusion of feminism and technological futurism so extreme it makes even traditional progressivism look moderate. Emerging in 2014 from the collective Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism is not satisfied with simply challenging traditional gender roles. No, it has a far more audacious goal: to abolish gender entirely through the use of advanced technology. XF demands the wholesale re-engineering of humanity itself.

This is a risky mix of utopian arrogance and moral recklessness. By attempting to erase biology, Xenofeminists aim to dismantle the most fundamental structures of human life, leaving a vacuum where identity, purpose, and even reality itself once stood. It is nothing less than a radical assault on nature, tradition, and the very idea of what it means to be human.

Xenofeminism and Cyberfeminism

To fully understand Xenofeminism (XF), we must look at its predecessor: Cyberfeminism, a feminist movement from the 1990s that celebrated the disruptive potential of technology to challenge traditional power structures.

Cyberfeminism recognized the internet and other technologies as places where identity could be fluid and malleable, breaking free from patriarchal constraints. Xenofeminism takes these cyberfeminist ideas to their extreme. While Cyberfeminism embraced technology’s potential to challenge gender norms, Xenofeminism sees technology as a tool to obliterate gender entirely. It wants to dismantle the biological foundations of identity itself.

XF views technology not as a space for exploration, as cyberfeminists did, but as a weapon to rewrite humanity. Xenofeminism demands the transformation of the human body through genetic editing and hormone manipulation. This radical leap shifts from empowering individuals within systems to dismantling the systems—and the individuals themselves—in favor of something entirely new.

Xenofeminists are accelerationists

Xenofeminism’s philosophy aligns closely with left-wing accelerationism. It seeks to drive existing systems—whether capitalism, gender, or biology—to their breaking point. XF believes that multiplying gender identities until the concept collapses entirely will somehow lead to liberation. But accelerationism, whether applied to economics or identity, is a dangerous game. Pushing systems to their extreme doesn’t guarantee liberation. It often results in chaos and collapse.

This accelerationist logic blinds Xenofeminism to the human costs of its project. Gender, rooted in biology, isn’t a system that can be hacked and discarded like outdated software. It is deeply tied to how people understand themselves, their relationships, and their communities. Accelerationism treats these complexities as irrelevant, seeing humanity itself as just another system to deconstruct.

Alienation as a virtue?

Xenofeminism openly celebrates alienation, arguing that distancing humanity from its natural conditions is both inevitable and desirable. Borrowing from Marxist theory, XF reframes alienation as a path to liberation. In their view, the more we separate ourselves from biology, tradition, and nature, the freer we become.

But is this truly freedom? Or is it a soulless march toward dehumanization? By severing ties to the natural, XF offers a future where humanity is unrecognizable—a product of artificial constructs with no anchor in reality. This is not liberation, it is nihilism larping as progress. The irony is that, in seeking to abolish gender, Xenofeminists may destroy the very concepts of identity and meaning that make human life worth living.

Xenofeminism represents the radical left’s obsession with utopian fantasies—visions of a perfect world that disregard human nature, historical experience, and moral boundaries. XF’s uncritical embrace of technology as the solution to all problems ignores the ethical and social chaos that such unchecked experimentation can unleash.

What happens when genetic engineering is used not to liberate but to control? When the tools to “hack” humanity fall into the hands of governments or corporations? Xenofeminism has no answers, because it refuses to acknowledge the darker side of its vision. In its mission to dismantle gender, it risks dismantling society itself.

Tradition, Common Sense, and the Human Future

Xenofeminism’s dream of abolishing gender is dangerous. It seeks to erase the natural distinctions that have anchored human society for thousands of years, replacing them with an untested, artificial framework that may collapse under its own weight. Gender is not a prison, it is a foundation—a structure that has provided stability, continuity, and meaning across cultures and generations. Technology may change what we can do, but it cannot change who we are without destroying us.

In its war on nature and tradition, Xenofeminism forgets a simple truth: progress is not achieved by rejecting the past but by building on it. Technology can and should improve human life, but it must do so in harmony with the realities of biology, culture, and moral order. A future without gender, without roots, and without limits is not a future worth pursuing—it is a dystopia in disguise. Xenofeminists focus on speculative futures that have no relevance to the vast majority of humanity. For the single mother struggling to make ends meet, or the factory worker trying to keep a roof over their family’s head, XF’s dreams of gender abolition through biotech are irrelevant. This is not a movement for the oppressed, it is a playground for the privileged who have way too much spare time.